We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

Charles Dudley Warner

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Hudson Taylor

God's work done God's way will never lack God's supply.

Marie T. Russell

Don't stop yourself from enjoying the now because of an imagined tomorrow or a remembered yesterday. Take a look at how you're stopping yourself from being happy. It's all up to you, no buts (or because)about it.

Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

William Morris

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Michael Harrington

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Confucius

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Elise Boulding

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

The Talmud

Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.

Vernon Howard

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Satya Sai Baba

People say "I want peace."

If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.